Dry Dock: Admiral Graf Spee - German cruiser | World of Warships

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What do you think about today's episode? Do you have Admiral Graf Spee in collection?:) 📝 Leave us a comment right after subscribing to the channel 🔔 wo.ws/KZbin-subscription With the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, World War I officially came to an end and the defeat of Germany was formalized. As per the conditions of the document, the country's fleet was to be cut down to a minimum, and serious restrictions on the construction of new capital ships in terms of their number, water displacement, and main battery caliber were to be imposed. In the 1920s-30s, German shipbuilders were charged with a challenging task-designing an all-in-one warship that, while conforming to the strict limitations of the Treaty, would still easily be able to disengage from battleships and confidently sink any existing heavy cruisers in battle. The task was brilliantly accomplished, and in 1933, the resulting Panzerschiff (armored ship) Deutchland was commissioned into the Reichsmarine. The ship had the armament of a battleship, but the speed of a cruiser. Such an unusual combination of characteristics that didn't fall within any international standards of the time required a new classification. A nickname created not without any irony by the British press-"Pocket Battleship"-took root. The third and the most advanced ship of this series was Admiral Graf Spee. 00:00 - Intro. Dry Dock: Admiral Graf Spee - German cruiser 00:30 - History of Admiral Graf Spee 04:10 - Admiral Graf Spee - German promo premium Tier VI cruiser In World Of Warships Recommended playlists: 👁‍🗨 Dry Dock - wo.ws/34bpBh1 World of Warships is the largest virtual shipyard in the world. The quality of the work performed by our artists improves each year, and the requirements for the accuracy of the models they create intensify respectively. 👁‍🗨 Naval Legends - wo.ws/2Kharxt Naval Legends is a series about the construction, service, and daring deeds of legendary 20th-century ships. Very few vessels survived World War I and II -- most were decommissioned and scrapped. The Naval Legends production crew travels all across the globe to visit almost every active museum ship and chronicle her story. 👁‍🗨 Naval Fortress - wo.ws/3wbRm8u Naval Fortress is a video series dedicated to the famous strategic forts and coastal defence fortresses. 👁‍🗨 In The Ports of World of Warships - wo.ws/3q8uy5w In this series, we'll be talking about the intricate details and exclusive features of our in-game Ports. 👁‍🗨 Armada - wo.ws/3vjlf3b Deep guides for in-game Warships: history, gameplay tips, unique features, advantages and disadvantages and many-many more! 👁‍🗨 Head Over Keels Is Back - wo.ws/3Jlgk92 👁‍🗨 Warships Size Comparison - wo.ws/35Wrsef This is a playlist where we compare ships by class, nation, tier, firepower, etc. 👁‍🗨 Armchair Admirals - wo.ws/3i9sgPp 👁‍🗨 Naval Traditions - wo.ws/36Cllbz 👁‍🗨 1:42 Scale Ships - wo.ws/3teWqqx 1:42 Scale is a video series about the history of ship building in the Russian Empire, which is based on the masterpieces of the ship scale modeling. 👁‍🗨 World of Warships Movies and Trailers - wo.ws/3ewuN4y ⚓⚓⚓ Keep an eye out on the official World of Warships website: wo.ws/website Quick start in WoWs for our subscribers: wo.ws/yt-gift If you're a console player, check out WoWs: Legends wo.ws/WoWSLegends Twitter: wo.ws/twitter Facebook: wo.ws/fb Instagram: wo.ws/inst #worldofwarships #warships #wows

[@raresmanea928]

Nope but i will get it soon

[@V-V1875-h]

Some damage? She almost sunk all 3 ships, destroyed all but 1 gunturret of the ships. The ships had to do very lengthy and extremely extensive repairs

[@christophemartin7142]

Yep...and i buy it and i never play it cause its not a good ship..no fun...no accuracy guns....really..

[@lloydpritts2960]

yes i do They should have another ship not in the game

[@chitandaeru1297]

I have hsf graf spee

[@D4rkn3ss2000]

If you wanna make the Graf Spee actually good and historically accurate, reduce the dispersion of the guns (the accuracy she showed in the battle of River Plate left a big impression on the british) and give her the ability to use spotter plane (the graf spee's spotter plane was its primary source of intel on merchant ships while doing commerce raiding)

[@alexblazquezvelarde8677]

What!? Make a German ship actually work?

[@KaiservonKrieger]

@@alexblazquezvelarde8677 Not on my primarily Russian-made video game!

[@Hidensee]

Plus boost secondaries acc. keep range but boost acc

[@lord_crush777]

They cant change a premium after releace in order to not lose money or make it even worse.

[@hyougawaganakimaru2138]

pee works in war thunder

[@ussvincent1119]

“Graf Spee isn’t meant to take on multiple targets at once and survive” Daniel Rusev: *Laughs in 4 v 1*

[@m1garand903]

USSVincent 11 bruh the Graf Spee was attacked by 3 cruisers

[@tirpitz177]

@@m1garand903 and then scuttled with little damage

[@Straswa]

Silly Daniel Rusev.

[@n.r.slusankyaexecutor-ii6904]

@@m1garand903 year late but whatever, you do realize that Vincent was specifically referring to a video that Daniel did awhile ago?

[@ezekyleabbadon9555]

"English cruisers" "screeching in Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish"

[@SwankySpitfire]

Ezekyle Abbadon yeah so in WG eyes EnGlisH.

[@PrintScreen.]

those are all part of england

[@provablegrub4581]

Chad Walker Britain.

[@Billy_The_Dog]

And don't forget that the Achillles was for all intents and purposes, a New Zealand ship... Also not England...

[@agentepolaris4914]

Brittish is Brittish, nobody cares if that's english, that's Welsh...

[@JDSFLA]

The Graf Spee was scuttled because of clever disinformation by the British that they had assembled a small fleet outside the harbor. This was a complete fabrication, but the Germans thought that they would face hopeless odds, and therefore scuttled. Another interesting fact following this is that the British got permission from Chile to examine the hulk because they suspected that the Graf Spee had radar - so accurate had been her gunfire. True enough, they found the radar and were able to examine it. This was contrary to the rules of "neutrality".

[@pauldrive7243]

Neither were the Spainish during WW2 either leaning the other way....

[@cazz2216]

British force Uruguay to leave Graf Spee from the Port of Montevideo or they will use Bombs in the City.

[@ghostarmy1106]

Well, one Part that, but more importantly one lucky shell shot her fuel sotrage, making all fuel but 72(?) hours of fuel useless, so she was stuck there

[@HingerlAlois]

GhostArmy1 Also the water-processing unit was damaged and would’ve had to be repaired. You wouldn’t get far without sufficient drinking water. Of course the Graf Spee was also running low on ammunition and couldn’t afford to fight a large battle.

[@KubusSc7]

Brits lying and ignoring rules? Imagine my shock...

[@angrydalek]

Finally! A video talking about the facets of your ships. I missed these

[@artamielraoq7675]

I miss the evidence of German battleships or some are battle cruisers (some people call them that for example the popular Bismarck) having such bad awful dispersion. I mean it's ok to balance German bb's like that because they WERE very good brawler but now I feel like the American bb's are doing a better job at that. I don't get the point of this dispersion.

[@shayden4296]

Can you buff those "great secondaries" range? 6km max is still not nearly good enough.

[@stevenmoore4612]

I love the Graf Spee dressed in the imperial German colors! Such a beautiful ship! The Germans sure did create some of the most eye catching vessels!

[@fitt4393]

Indeed

[@finalcoupe1794]

Graf Spee an interesting ship on paper… What I like the most in this video is “Secondaries are great against destroyer” I understand the 4km range on these but what I don’t understand is the accuracy. Those secondaries still miss against a Colorado at 2km so how am I supposed to hit a destroyer? Even the secondaries of Bismarck cannot hit anything and it’s a “secondary battleships”. I know captain skills and upgrade but why do I have to use 14 captain skills point to have something that is a little bit effective. I do not remember the need of 14-point captain to enjoy other types of ships. I understand to miss at 10km but at 2km ??? even without a captain the crew is not supposed to be blind. So, replace this line by “secondaries are just here to decorate the ship” But still a good video, it’s good to see that there are still real ship in this game!

[@shadowtrooper262]

"I am Ironblood navy's third ship of the Deutschland class Panzerschiff, Graf.Spee. When carrying out commerce raiding in the South Americas, I was wounded by a Royal Navy cruiser and had to sail to Montevideo port, and ended up scuttling myself due to various factors...Commander, this time, I want to fight...till the very end!" -KMS Admiral Graf Spee of Azur Lane

[@niaagustina4142]

Ugh..... Always AL

[@ispyonthefbi7986]

@@niaagustina4142 don't knock it till you tried it Sir, it's really quite fun

[@ventus7380]

@@ispyonthefbi7986 indeed, Azur Lane kept the history behind every ship. For an example, IJN Nagato. I didn't even know that she used to be IJN's Flag Ship for quite sometime. I though Yamato was for all this time.

[@petrosmarko3092]

Man of culture

[@gabriellabonitasukianto6592]

@@ventus7380 actually at that time Nagato was more famous and popular than Yamato - this I heard from Japanese AL fan :D

[@TheNiceDice]

"Historically accurate", like leaving out the icebreaker armorplates on the O-class battlecruisers Ägir and Siegfried? :D

[@aurelian3268]

icebreaker for russian ships only

[@imamage]

Feelsbad for Roma dispersion ..

[@halolime117]

@@ogantafia1944 you must be joking

[@Vespillo_]

The ice breaker is a part of the type O design. It's in the blue print and it's a part of the Soul of the ship

[@ImaSpacePotato]

I'm so sick of hearing this argument. You Flamu worshippers base this entirely off wiki images that aren't even maintained by WG employees but rather community volunteers. The "missing" icebreaker is consistent with reputable sources of O class blueprints.

[@stbg1719]

"We recreate ship accurately according to their historical blueprints" so why then does Seigfried still have missing armour...

[@K23_23]

Didnt hood have torpedo

[@andrewvazzana383]

So why do the Russians have a giant navy?

[@ImaSpacePotato]

It doesn't. The wiki is not maintained by official WG employees. The "missing" 60mm extended belt does not appear on other sources of O class blueprints

[@stbg1719]

@@K23_23 yes she did but they were fixed tubes, in fact all British Dreadnought style battleships from HMS Dreadnought up to and including the Nelson class had torpedo tubes but majority of them had them submerged below the water line, Hoods were above water fixed in the broadsides of the hull.

[@stbg1719]

@@andrewvazzana383 because balans lol

[@backseatbogan2021]

I hate seeing any ship, especially one so beautiful to sink

[@Just_R0yc3]

Truly brings a tear to the eye

[@ceayonjohnston4368]

It was scuttled because the captain of the ship thought the British had CV waiting for her but they were dsys away while in Port in Uraguay or aregentin

[@cheguevara7478]

And escape from anything that can destroy her Laughs in kongo

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Same for Prinz Eugen, if there was one German warship that should have been preserved as a training and museum ship it was that tone,

[@thegeneral123]

Yes I have Graf Spee, sadly, she like many other older ships have been power crept quite badly. She's OK but she's a support ship now and just uptiers really badly. The 11 inch guns seem to have awful penetration. A problem that Sharnhorst also suffers from.

[@nyana6641]

has it changed because I just got it

[@suyukaznowdraws363]

You guys could've replaced the fictitious Yorck with Admiral Scheer ;-;

[@lordredlead2336]

I mean the yorck was actually supposed to be the Deutschland class but then they choose a design that we all know and love the reason to York has 210mm guns is because it was going to be from another ship from ww1 they were that desperate Hitler actually revisited design and that's why the hipper looks similar

[@RegTarg011]

This ship(and her crew) got best story.. to me.

[@davidknight2104]

Just bought this ship and it didn't disappoint 👍🏻 historically a great ship with an honourable captain and crew

[@Rob.DB.]

How much was she in actual $?

[@donaldchurch8158]

I love the reference at 1:19 when Graf Spee had a "third" turret.

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

😂

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

She absolutely DID have a chance to escape but fake intell caused her captain to panic and scuttle her in shallow waters 4 miles off the coast. She could have made an easy escape into the south atlantic, and because of this, the captain shot himself in the forehead.

[@JDSFLA]

"Re-create accurately"? OK, so where is the ice breaker bow for the "O" class German ships, which was in the blueprints, but IS NOT to be found in the World of Warships versions.

[@halolime117]

@@ogantafia1944 you must be joking. It was BUILT IN

[@eMercody]

Apparently the blueprints they got from Germany did not include it, however they deemed it a more reliable source.

[@ImaSpacePotato]

The WG wiki is not maintained by official WG employees, but rather independent volunteers. The "missing" 60mm extended belt does not appear on other sources of O class blueprints.

[@JerrySeriatos]

I long to see an animation of how guns are loaded and shells move around.

[@andreadalcortivo747]

What is "Historically accurate" in this game?

[@Nickname-hier-einfuegen]

The ship models, for the most part.

[@argonaut1462]

Aircraft carriers being op

[@Vespillo_]

Type O cruiser is still missing some Armor in the nose, so i don't think wE can say "HiStOrICaLlY AcCuRaTe"

[@andreadalcortivo747]

@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen What ship models? A lot of ships in WOWS never exixted nor designed even on blueprints

[@andreadalcortivo747]

@@argonaut1462 Let's see next German CVs totally invented by WG.

[@xXE4GLEyEXx]

This was probably the best Dry Dock Episode! Thank you!

[@Twosts]

Im from Argentine and i know the lore of that boat in "El Río de la Plata"

[@calebshonk5838]

WG: "We recreate ships accurately according to their historical blueprints." Also WG: *introduces dozens of grossly overpowered Russian fantasy ships with bullshit armor and hyperaccurate guns, while also consistently nerfing the capabilities of other nation's real-life ships. Historical accuracy doesn't mean what it used to, huh?

[@davidandmartinealbon3155]

They are not fantasy comrade! They are top secret soviet operations with stealth equipment so they remain hidden from capitalist pigs! You have questioned glorious soviet union and comrade stalin, you go to gulag!

[@aBoogivogi]

Not to mention those CV's that can't fucking burn or flood and is apparently equipped with aircraft factories :p

[@subwhiffy02]

war was never meant to be fair

[@patatasuper8565]

Whaat historical ships on my primarily made Russian game

[@jzerordan8424]

Belfast and her torpedoes 😔😔

[@NicWalker627]

anyone else notice the sign on the deck that says "Stop or I will Fire"

[@obiphil8672]

Her speed was more like 27 knots. And 11 inch guns were hardly the mainstream battleship guns of the time. Other navies had long abandoned 11 inch and moved onto 13 inch onward.

[@kennethbracken2053]

Can us people who bought the Graf Spee get an F?

[@V-V1875-h]

F

[@giannisg3387]

F

[@brendan4378]

Sadly i am one of them, F.

[@scienceteam5848]

F

[@yajamanvamsikrishna509]

@@V-V1875-h F

[@tigerz_thatkill4395]

Everybody Gangsta till the kreigsmarine starts swimming

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

German engineering always makes beautiful things, Also happy Bismarck day to all you navy lovers!!!!

[@mlgproplayer2915]

If I already have a Graf Spee, do I still get the new camouflage?

[@yamato4336]

When does she come back?

[@WorshipinIdols]

WHAT!!! Some damage!!! She won hands down, and then she showed mercy to the helpless HMS EXETER who was basically a burning wreck and could have been finished off.

[@igoryst3049]

WorshipinIdols Graf Spee lost it’s fuel purification plant and had to retreat to repair it

[@WorshipinIdols]

@@igoryst3049 oh really!! Wow!! Thank you real took me to for a ride

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@igoryst3049 The fuel purification plant was irreparable, which left Graf Spee with around 24 hours of usable fuel. Furthermore, she had used up most of her ammunition stocks, and had found that, contrary to the belief of her designers, her armour was not capable of protecting her from 8 inch shellfire. Thus, instead of being immune to anything except three British & two French battle cruisers, the German armoured cruisers were suddenly revealed as vulnerable to any British or French heavy cruiser as well. Langsdorff's mistakes were, firstly, not turning away as soon as Harwood's squadron was detected, apparently because he mis-identified it as a light cruiser and two destroyers and believed that they might have been screening a convoy, and, secondly, not sinking Exeter. Had he done so, Harwood would have had to have decided whether to continue the action, and abandon Exeter's survivors, or to pick up survivors and discontinue the action. Posts about 'mercy' are nonsensical. It was not the job of the captain of a warship in wartime to be 'merciful' to enemy warships, but to work his own ship to the best advantage. Langsdorff's uncertain handling of his ship in an action in which it should have been overwhelmingly superior hardly shows him to have been up to his job.

[@kempmt1]

I've always believed the Graf Spee was more of a battle cruiser. Is any of that ship still in the waters of Montevideo?

[@smokincolt6425]

The waters she sunk in are only like 30 feet deep at most I think. When she initially sunk her superstructure and 28cm guns were still on the surface until she rolled over on her side. Nowadays she is actually in great condition with most of the ship still intact. Just some superstructure snapped off and a chunk of stern missing along with not as much rust as you would expect. Since she isn't a war grave, plans to raise the ship have been on the surface for a while, they have already raised a fire director for I believe the 28cm guns and the iron eagle that was on her stern.

[@drianmortiz9375]

The KGR Admiral Graf Von Spee, is one greatest type German WW2 Warship that has ever made.

[@maheelhilaal2801]

5:07 Admiral Graf Spee: heya Nagato, Ur gonna get Hooded. Nagato: wait Hooded? Wasn't that the battle of the--- NOOOOO 5:10. Admiral Graf Spee: I'm a better Bismarck!

[@jfinn3575]

Once the captain of cruiser Graff Spee, went and sunk his own ship in the bay, rumours he was surrounded, turned out unfounded, and he blew out his brains the next day!

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

Graf*

[@HughMungus777]

56000 horsepower. Jesus. Btw i use her with AL Commander Graf Spee. Looks badass with black and red and white claw stripes. Just sick looking. My favorite ship in the game.

[@vermillion.__-_.]

lol what do the ships in this game do 100mph or somthing>?!?!? is it sped up?

[@thekingsamar5781]

Well done with the details wg,

[@Hacienda_27]

Whats the background track called please ?

[@loganmahalko4205]

Aren’t there parts of this ship that were raised and put on display? I think the rangefinder was raised from the wreck

[@Dahistoryguy1945]

0:37 epic soundtrack

[@MrBranboom]

The fire control optics seem especially prominant on this ship. Where they special in some why?

[@tyrantscave6525]

It was the top of it's class, so yea, they was especial.

[@trixus4768]

Made by some random guy named Zeiss, so... 😂

[@nervsouly]

The historical context section was way too inaccurate and too short, might as well have left it out if you're going to do it this way.

[@GandziaxBG]

Can we Get a HMS Hood in a next Dry Dock pretty please ?

[@peottoterlanger5259]

Das waren echte Helden.!!!!!

[@luckymies205]

Almost played 200 game with Spee, and ohboy i had fun, before C- rework, i managed to sink some ships with my secondarys. now range is 7.5 km, and i like it. i want to say, that althought we have Siegfried and Ägir, followers of "armored ships" there was also this other ship plans called; D-class cruisers. Larger model of Deutchland-class ships. Only one keel was layed down, but five months later it got replased by Scharnhorst-class ships. Man now i want to see D-class cruiser in the Game too, it Could be perfect on tier VIII.

[@snowykaze]

Geez, just gonna do this and not credit the music? The second song when going over Graf Spee’s model was so good! I wanna hear it standalone ;-;

[@barrydunham896]

Great job as always WG. Keep doing these dry dock episodes

[@DaveMcKeegan]

Disappointed that it building this seems to require completing missions that have very specific criteria such as must be a specific class from a specific nation - I can't complete missions because the destroyers that I own aren't Russian or British ... Seems a ridiculous attempt to force people to buy more ships

[@lunsmann]

There are more than enough other mission options that you absolutely do not NEED to complete that specific task.

[@Matteo-ks6fn]

I can't help seeeing this over and over...

[@dosenbrotdosenbrot5823]

Can you please make a dry dock episode for Scharnhorst

[@Hacienda_27]

Or Gneisenau

[@asrielthespaceshiba7723]

original Armada + Dry Dock I love this style of Dry Dock videos

[@KmisiGNaG]

Commander, is it okay to hug you with this hand?

[@anthonyware4033]

I some what agree with the intro, but why do you leave out some armor that the ships had?

[@perryjuis6697]

Can you put in the game the italian battleship please

[@hyougawaganakimaru2138]

they are comeing soon just make do with roma and gulio if u have her

[@Red-nt3ut]

Graf Spee was an excellent raider, in part because they fooled many Merchants by cleverly using camouflage and erecting dummy structures to appear as an Allied ship. Not to mention the incredible accuracy of the main guns at the Battle of River Plate. I expected great concealment and accurate guns, but the game doesn't reflect this. Regardless, it's still my favorite ship.

[@jaredw9171]

The music at the first half of this video should be in the game.

[@ylmazirdenyazc8393]

Wait!! İf the Submarines come to the Game Thats mean we have a Underwater Scenery as well alongside the Surface One. But thats mean my computer will Set on Fire when i Try to Play the Game. Any Solutions about That?

[@SlickCookie]

You got us in the first half not gonna lie. F in the chat

[@dashboss7016]

Use Damage Control Party :P

[@TheExecutorr]

well it didn't affect the performance so far, so I guess it's not that bad.

[@paranoid97_]

"underwater scenery" it's mostly just lumps of rock you can't even see

[@panthir6720]

Do we just complete the dry dock missions to build the ships which will take forever

[@axelsantanah.7900]

This video is very well made, i love it

[@An-su7mf]

where do i buy it???

[@daveBit15]

"Pocket battleship" was a propaganda-driven term invented by the British, not descriptive at all of the Deutschland class. The Germans officially classified the class as "heavy cruisers."

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

Thank you.

[@NorwaysGreatestSon]

Please add the USS Arizona the ship that sunk during the battle of Pearl Harbor

[@halolime117]

it already exists ingame

[@ProHunter12]

Best episode of dry dock so far and finaly a good video about a german ship

[@technomad1770]

Question: is there any way to obtain the ship WITHOUT spending actual money ?.

[@Rob.DB.]

There WAS a way. Way back in the day like 5 years ago i got her without paying a dime. Dont remember how either she just appeared in my port one day & been having a blast ever since. IDK how much actual $ they want for her but honestly shes not very good . I love it but wouldnt pay more than $15 for her. Good Luck Captain!

[@Lazarusquixote]

@@Rob.DB. i recall there was a mission/campaign/whatever to get her, its been a while

[@Arengeesus]

When it was the only pocket BB with cruiser tag on it not until balans soviet paper cruisers came along Also, Ostheer flag on graf spee is cool

[@IronLord2014]

Pocket Battleships such as Graf Spee are perhaps the only types of Battleships that could be modernised, financially maintained and used with ease in the modern era if one would consider to do so.

[@ps4zocker160]

I Unlocked the Graf Spee today in the Dockyard

[@V-V1875-h]

How much did u pay?

[@ps4zocker160]

I bought the Bonus for 8000 dublons and i play four days

[@tacos_tequila]

I have it.. main guns rarely hit over 1800 damage. Turing sucks, secondaries range suck, catches on fire to easy. Reload is to long.. if I could scuttle it and get my gold back I would..

[@imcustomized]

So six 11-inch guns was an armament "common for battleships of that time"? Which contemporary battleships possessed such armament?

[@Stormoak]

The Term "Pocket Battleship" was not official but it releated to the fact that the 28cm Battery was.much closer to Battleship armaments than ordinary cruiser guns of 15cm or 20cm.

[@ConfusedAdmiral]

Its like an Armada & Naval Legends video Graf Spees Dry Dock has less screentime

[@melamagno2426]

So where are the italian battleships....the 4th navy power of ww2?

[@jdortiz5626]

how do i make it look like the secondaries are turning

[@D4rkn3ss2000]

There is an option in the graphics setting called "animate small objects" but I think it only works on high graphic settings

[@viktorri9757]

Love it! How long Can i build the Odin and the Graf Spee?

[@yajamanvamsikrishna509]

1 and half months

47 days remain

[@JDSFLA]

The days remaining is shown right on the mission page!

[@Matteo-ks6fn]

Said they were on the wrong side of the war, said war It's a cruel useless carnage, the Graf Spee is one of my favorite warships: an armored knight roaming the seas, led by a chivalrous commander. Unfortunately they usually end after a epic, rageous and suicidal last stand, like Bismarck and Yamato. As Admiral Fraser put it: "Gentlemen, the battle against the Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that any of you who are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior, will command your ship as gallantly as the Scharnhorst was commanded today."

[@odinvonjutland9086]

u mean Pocket Battleship right?

[@brandondonaldson983]

And I’m talking to wargaming on this difficult problem and please note that this is not the only one you guys put as premiums when they should be put into their respective tier trees as regular ships with maybe an actual price to buy them for

[@P-I-T-F-A]

What is the point creating accurate models in the game if you don't use their real life bullit characteristics? And yes I know it's a game, but still....

[@joachimhorn4052]

Where's Dasha?

[@monkeyhighlord4412]

is was said to be at least 12000 ton which violate the treaty of versailles

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

16,000 tonnes fully equipped.

[@Raibartroudrix]

Graf Spee is one of my favorite ships.

[@dust6635]

Definitely my second favorite ship after my Tirpitz

[@tirpitz177]

Aye another Tirpitz user

[@Pavlovsobaka]

Let me tell you something WG. If you want to make the Graff Spee playable against tier 8s buff its speed slightly and at least give it 27 mm bow because any ship can currently overmatch it. Also buff the accuracy bof main batteries and the maybe give it preferential tier 8 match up because that would be too OP for tier 6 matches.

[@ottovalkamo1]

He said it! "Heavy cruiser"! How dare they :D

[@hyougawaganakimaru2138]

i mean it wa sjust chunkier than usual

[@Guderian218]

The Admiral Graf Spee is not a cruiser, she is a Pocket Battleship. It's not her nickname, it's her type. This new type of Battleships was created against the Treaty of Versailles. They wanted a powerful Battleship but in the limit of the Treaty. That's why they created the new type of the Battleships. Deutschland class and P class was specially design for that goal, but after Hitler become leader of Germany their goal was changed into raider.

[@Risktaker_]

If you knew anything about the Deutschland class ships you'd know that they actually are cruisers. Officially classified as Panzerschiff and later changed to Heavy Cruiser. The term Pocket Battleship was created by the British due to their small size but battleship-like artillery. The Admiral Graf Spee is officially a Heavy Cruiser and not a pocket Battleship. please do some research before you talk lmao

[@Guderian218]

@@Risktaker_ They were Panzershiffe, it was their offical classification, which means armored ship. But they still were not cruisers, just because most pepole claime them to be. They were built to fill the role of a battleship, which was forbiden for the Reichsmarine to build after the Treaty of Versailles. They were cruiser sized battleships. The germans never called them Heavy Cruisers or Schwerer Kreuzer. They were classified as Panzershiffe not as cruisers. So you should not base everything on Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia also claime the 5 different H battleships as 1 single class. (There were the H-39, H-41, H-42, H-43 and H-44)

[@Risktaker_]

@@Guderian218 how come you assume I based that statement on 1 Wikipedia search of the Deutschland class. The Deutschland class is my favorite ship class ever made. They were classified as Panzerschiffe at the start but the classification was changed to Heavy Cruiser later on. Still doesn't matter if you want to call them Panzerschiff, pocket Battleship or heavy cruiser they were just cruisers with artillery not usually found on "normal" cruisers with Admiral Graf Spee being sent to raid in the southern Atlantic (I'm not sure what the other 2 ships of the class did as Graf Spee is my favorite pf the three)

[@Risktaker_]

@@Guderian218 they were also not officially classified as pocket Battleships by the Germans, that was still something the British came up with so if you want to insist that they weren't cruisers at least say they were Panzerschiffe as that is the official classification

[@Hacienda_27]

@@Risktaker_honestly, they're nothing less than heavy cruisers

[@Vvoornth]

Grinding this might be a problem as I am just a casual player. Using a non-premium T6 (Nurnberg) as I don't have any high-tier premiums so even Camo'd and sigged up, it's still a chore, compared to PT server

[@Nickname-hier-einfuegen]

You have 2 months and only have to reach stage 10.

[@aBoogivogi]

It's always a shore compared to the P.T. server

[@imamage]

Hate to say but I am glad I got her the first release from limited time mission chain few years ago which is less grindy ....

[@dasbrunei5259]

is this an episode of armada??

[@V-V1875-h]

I liked this video, I would have bought the spee sooner or later, but now I can get it fir free, sounds good to me

[@cachulo88]

Nice one

[@tyrantscave6525]

I have the ship and is not bad, but you have to read the battle before get in the action. The torps are good and the main torrets do good damage if you aim is OK. What i do is protect the warships and attack the same ships they attack.

[@wyattlewis8559]

Youre killing us, wargaming

[@smalltime0]

lel, people kept playing it

[@perlasandoval7883]

The only reason why i know some of the mostly unknown ships is because of a mixture of anime and wikipedia

[@garethmatthews7939]

the crussiers were hms Exeter HMS Ajax HMNZS Archillies two royal navy and a royal new zeland navy so its was not three english ships

[@itstitanictime2002]

Achilles was not loaned to the New Zealand Navy at that point and was HMS Achilles

[@garethmatthews7939]

@@itstitanictime2002 she was a royal new zwland ship has the following remarks HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser, the second of five in the class. She served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War. She was launched in 1931 for the Royal Navy, loaned to New Zealand in 1936 and transferred to the new Royal New Zealand Navy in 1941. Wikipedia

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

​@@garethmatthews7939 No. She was under the command of HMS when she chased Graf Spee to her eventual final resting spot.

[@jamescooper7878]

She is clearly not a frontliner figher, but excels in the support role or as second line cruiser. Those guns, got my first Kraken in her XD

[@alexdunphy3716]

The Deutschland Class should not be a premium. Absolute nonsense

[@Il_Principessa]

No because this thing is basically a speedy battleship that can one hit using his gun and torpedo and steam behind an island

[@alexdunphy3716]

@@Il_Principessa doesn't matter, ships are balanced and tiered to compensate for what ones were better irl. If it's iconic is should have a normal version. What you said is like saying that the tiger tank should only be a premium in WOT because it was so much better than what it faced

[@BoerbokMan]

historically accurate my bloody ass

[@Straswa]

Great vid Warships team, although I wish you didn't just gloss over Graf Spee's performance against those British cruisers by saying "some damage".